A token is an object of value, and may refer to:
- Token coin, a piece of metal or other composition used as a substitute for currency; includes subway tokens
- Casino token
- Other items that are part of exonumia
- Tokenism, the inclusion of a single person (or very few people) of a group so an organization can publicly claim to be inclusive
- Knight's token, carried by a medieval knight
- Wedding token, wedding paraphernalia also known as an arrhae or wedding coin
- Game piece or counter used in a game
- Book token, a (branded) voucher or gift card redeemable for books
- Token (railway signalling), a physical object given to a locomotive driver to authorize him to use a particular stretch of single railway track
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Famous quotes containing the word token:
“The token woman carries a bouquet of hothouse celery
and a stenographer’s pad; she will take
the minutes, perk the coffee, smile
like a plastic daisy and put out
the black cat of her sensuous anger
to howl on the fence all night.”
—Marge Piercy (b. 1936)
“It doesn’t make any difference how much money a father earns, his name is always Dad-Can-I.... Like all other children, my five have one great talent: they are gifted beggars. Not one of them ever ran into the room, looked up at me, and said, “I’m really happy that you’re my father, and as a tangible token of my appreciation, here’s a dollar.””
—Bill Cosby (20th century)
““With the gracious consent of the audience, you will be made to don the red tophat”Ma token phrase that the courts had evolved, whose true meaning was known to every schoolboy.”
—Vladimir Nabokov (1899–1977)